The digiKam team has just released a new version of digiKam, digiKam 1.2.0. digiKam is an excellent image editor and organizor for KDE SC with a lot of features.
digiKam 1.2.0 comes with a lot of bugfixes and some new features. The new features includes:
- AlbumGUI :
- All Album tree views are ported to pure Qt4 model/view implementation.
- ImageEditor :
- Brightness/Contrast/gamma tool is multithreaded and use a zoomable preview widget.
- Color Balance tool is multithreaded and use a zoomable preview widget.
- Hue/Saturation/Lightness tool is multithreaded and use a zoomable preview widget.
- Auto Color Correction tool is multithreaded and use a zoomable preview widget.
- Channel Mixer tool is multithreaded and use a zoomable preview widget.
- Black and White tool is multithreaded and use a zoomable preview widget.
- White Balance tool is multithreaded and use a zoomable preview widget.
- Adjust Curves tool is multithreaded and use a zoomable preview widget.
- Adjust Levels tool is multithreaded and use a zoomable preview widget.
- Complete rewrite of the FilmGrain tool. FilmGrain tool use now YCrCb color space to add noise. Graininess size can be adjusted with an option to set-up photographic distribution of noise. Different amounts of noise can be added to highlights, shadows and midtones.
- BatchQueueManager :
- New tool to
- fix Brightness/Contrast/gamma.
- adjust Color Balance.
- Hue/Saturation/Lightness.
- convert images color space.
- mix color channel.
- convert to Black and White.
- adjust White Balance.
- adjust Curves.
- blur images.
- add Film Grain to images.
- apply Local Contrast (LDR tone mapping).
- add/remove vignetting.
- invert image colors.
- convert color bits depth.
- add border around images.
- Rotate tool support Free Rotation adjustments.
- It’s now possible to Stop and restart a processed queue.
- New tool to
digiKam 1.2.0 is not yet available for any linux distribution. However, if you are upto it, you can download and compile from the source.